Kyle Busch upset over contact with Boris Said
HAMPTON, Ga. – Kyle Busch was upset with Boris Said after the two made contact during the final Sprint Cup practice session Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Said’s quickest speed in the practice session was 176.067 mph – more than 6 mph slower than Busch and 42nd of the 43 cars in the session. Driving for Latitude 43 Motorsports, Said completed the Daytona 500 but has failed to finish at the other two Sprint Cup events this year. The Latitude 43 team has the owner points from Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 26 car driven by Jamie McMurray last year.
“As far as the incident with the 26 car on the race track – just guys that don’t belong out there,” Busch said following the Truck Series race Saturday. “He’s run off the pace at every single track that we’ve been to. He’s been the slowest car at the race track. He’s got owners points, so he gets to make the race because he bought his way into a car number from last year that had the owners points.
“I was minding my own business, racing my own car around the bottom of the race track, drifting out to the outside wall, and he was running the top and then all of a sudden decided he wanted to run the middle down the straightaway. Normally you stay high and run against the wall.”
Busch said the contact shouldn’t impact his Joe Gibbs Racing car, which he qualified on the outside of the front row for the race Sunday.
“We made contact and tore up our car just a little bit,” Busch said. “It’s just cosmetic stuff, but it’s work for the guys that they have to do, instead of just preparing and getting ready for tomorrow.”
